South Africa’s leading independent newspaper, the Mail&Guardian, has been sold to Zimbabwean entrepreneur and newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube.
Advocate Percy Sonn, head of the Scorpions as well as the Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions, has stepped down, the directorate announced on Tuesday.
The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday said it was not convinced that the HIV/Aids figure for the SA National Defence Force as given by Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota was correct.
Professor Friedel Sellschop, a world leader in the field of nuclear physics died peacefully at his Johannesburg home on Sunday.
Mathatha Tsedu, who resigned as the SA Broadcasting
Corporation’s acting head of news on Monday, has been appointed editor of the Sunday Times.
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) on Monday demanded the release of arrested land activist Ann Eveleth, threatening unspecified action if she remained in custody.
The serious business of summitting in Sandton appear to be rendering some delegates vulnerable to the trickery of sex workers, officials said on Monday.
The ”savage” principle of the survival of the fittest should no longer rule the way in which society is constructed, delegates to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) heard on Monday.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission will have to hold back publication of its final report until after January 29 next year, when the matter between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the TRC will be heard in the Cape High Court.